Name: Alyx Vance

Gender: Female, Straight

Age/DOB: 25/1999

Origin: Repurposed Earth, New Mexico, Black Mesa Facilities

Family: Eli Vance, father; Azian Vance, mother, deceased; In a relationship with Geoff Fettel and will likely have children with him (Vance Fettel) as well as any spliced by Melissa; Spliced half-siblings Ellis and Liza

Other: Has created numerous technological marvels, including DOG her guardian; close friends with Martin; enjoys trips with the Vorts at the Ranch; Notably, Kallah Vahh has sworn to keep an eye on her and keep her safe, while she is away from Black Mesa and the Enrichment Center (and this is work, as she does tend to get into trouble...)

Height: 5'6

Weight: 135, slight build with strong muscularity

Hair: dark brown-black with red highlights, straight and thick, easily curls, usually kept back with a headband or tie

Eyes: hazel green

Appearance: light brown skin that tans well in sunlight, has numerous small moles and freckles in sunny times, small scars mainly around fingers and forearms, burn marks

Image Credits: Doll Divine Sari / Harry Potter / tektek / Icon-City of Heroes / Unknown artist (dog)

Genetic Abilities: none specifically noted, however mechanical savantism is obvious and highly exploitable
Icarus Processing: none, but Melissa continually begs for her to get it done in order to fully open up her mechanical skills; it is possible that at some point in the future she may do this, but her parents were dead set against it once they learned how it was done
Skills or Profession: Almost all Alyx's skills revolve around inventing, tinkering, and exploration. She is extraordinarily adept with repairing existing equipment and adapting things to make other useful items from them. She has a preternatual ability to predict what tool to use or hand off to others when they're working, and can easily pick up another engineer's work to finish it. She's adept at maths, coding and programming (both Earthly and Combine computer systems), and can quickly work her way through security systems. Physically she is highly agile and enjoys climbing as well as rooting around in vents or burrows, has no fear of heights so she is often climbing ruins to get a good vantage. While she doesn't make maps, she can read and interpret them easily, and has an unerring memory for locations and landmarks.
Personality: Talkative, sporty, competitive, reliable, and strongly protective. Alyx enjoys her position as the daughter of 'everyone's father fighre' Eli, as well as that of being Geoff's girlfriend. Of course that's made her life a bit weirder than it could be, and that's saying a lot, because their world is weird as hell. Though she takes nearly any event in stride, sometimes things may take her off guard a little and she will retreat for some needed safety or respite. She's known to push herself while working on a project, hardly sleeping and often enough falling asleep while in the middle of something. Usually not with a hot glue gun in her hand, but there was that one time... She is insatiably curious about the Vorts, their world, and how they live on Earth. Her youthful energy has never waned, she's exactly as jumpy and filled with bounce as when she was a girl.

Events or History: Born to two scientists, Eli and Azian Vance were exceptionally happy with their very gifted daughter. Even at a remarkably young age she showed aptness toward science and tinkering, and both of her parents encouraged this. Because numerous projects involving gifted children were available at Armacham-Aperture's Enrichment Center, even though it was fairly far away from Black Mesa, her parents agreed to send her there for testing and education opportunities that even the Black Mesa facility couldn't offer. (Besides, at the time they hardly realized what kind of testing there would be, nor how many dangers the Center actually contained... That said they're still fewer than those at Black Mesa!)

Though requested frequently, as above, the Vances did not approve of the Icarus process being done on their daughter, but she still easily kept up with even the most advanced students in her age group. Brilliantly able to jump into an activity and master many subjects, Alyx never really slowed down, even during or after the Events. She was vital in many operations in the Enrichment Center, particularly with getting communications working again after everything went to hell. She also became somewhat of a focal point for the engineering and creation of a functional teleport device between the two facilities. Everyone on both sides of the map wanted to see her reunited with her father, since the Events had separated them.

As she grew up around all of the Vortally-powered children, Alyx always knew that first off she was 'different' from them. She couldn't throw fire or turn invisible. But she also always knew that they were a bit jelous of her: most of them did not have parents in a conventional sense, and she had Eli. After the loss of so many adults, Alyx appreciated the effort that they all went through to keep themselves alive, but also garnered a bit of resentment and hesitation around some remaining. The independence of the kids was threatened but only for a short time. As they were able to leave and go to Black Mesa, she frequently moved between the facilities, and began hanging out more with the Vorts and humans that ran the Black Mesa Ranch - herding antlions with the Vorts was where she and Geoff finally realized that they were 'an item'.

Finally meeting Geoff and Paxton's 'family' however, that was a bit of a shock... For her as well as Eli. Eventually she and several others headed to Europe - ostensibly to find and retrieve one of their wandering friends, Geoff's old girlfriend Isabella. But mostly they were there to assemble more of a resistance, which finally led to the downfall of the Combine in their dimension.

Now that the Rookery is also part of their 'family', a world where many of them either didn't exist or didn't live through their own form of the Events, Alyx knows that her duties rounding up refugees, providing protection, and patrolling in both worlds is of paramount importance. Though there are differences in the world's features, Alyx easily navigates around the Rookery Mesa as well as the Black Mesa Refugee City, in addition to wherever she's needed in any part of their territory.

Dragon

Name: Sunrise
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium-Small, 8'3 shoulder / 41' long /90' ws
Colors: *Denim blue, faded sky mottled white, bioluminescent white spots, wingsails sunrise yellow, green, cyan, small brighter spots, charcoal claws, horns, back ridge, yellow-orange eyes; Colors shift on emotion or consciously, see Powers
Features: four legs, 5 digits front, 4 toes rear, extremely long claws; soft scales, wide soft belly armor, facial armor, nose spike, cheek spikes, webbed head frill, back curved horns, flexible armor down entire spine, from neck to tail tip; 3 fingered webbed wings, with elbow spine for stability and thumb at wrist, all bearing long curved claws; exceptionally strong prehensile tail; extremely toxic venom/spit/spray from mouth/teeth.
Powers: Winged Flight, Sunrise is an extraordinarily good flier in close quarters such as between trees or buildings, even with such large wings. She is quick in the air, and can fly at what looks like breakneck speed directly onto a wall or surface, and grasp with not only her claws but her strong tail to cling to it. She has very little concept of 'up', this fact isn't lost on Alyx, who also seems to defy gravity at times...
Verbal Speech (human languages and draconic) as well as minor empathy and close range telepathy with dragons or bond.
Color changing scales, with different emotions producing unique colors and combinations, Sunrise is most often seen to be shades of blue through pink, happy and amused or curious. But she seems to have her own take on what Rainwing coloration should be - being able to blend in with stone rubble, sandy hillsides, or man-made structures is of vital importance in this world she's found herself on, so she's made more of an effort to directly control her colors at all times. She loves getting feedback about them, so don't hesitate to suggest new combinations...
As other Rainwing have, her venomous spit is extremely dangerous and can burn through any organic material in moments. She is adept with this spit up to thirty meters, beyond which it becomes more of a spray-and-pray.
Parentage: Pureblooded Rainwing with specific parentage unknown, but likely the half-sibling of Bugbait on her Rainwing side, and possibly with Vrah'ell what with that blue coloration.
Origin: Adopted from Moonshimmer981 on Deviantart; Wings of Fire lineart by Joy Ang
Other Info: One problematic downside to this lovely creature is that first, she must get sunlight and basking time before she's even going to think about getting 'up' for the day. She won't reside inside the Mesa proper, preferring the vortally-grown 'forest' around the hydroelectric dam nearby. Another is that she's night-blind, so anything that happens when the sun goes down is absolutely someone else's problem. She relies on other dragons to maneuver to a good resting spot if it's too dark for her to see, and will demand DOG or another of Alyx's friends to come help her human out overnight. They explore as much as possible with the light of day, a dangerous proposition in some cases, but with her ability to change color and her sheer speed of flight, any Combine that catches a glimpse won't get much more than that, a glimpse.